With a mix of citizen and professional journalists on the ground throughout the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, people across the globe were able to witness the havoc wreaked by the storm minute by minute. However, less documented are the lengths that reporters go to in order to record these compelling images and provide the first hand information from the ground many were relying on. Jeff Pinilla’s documentary THE FIRST 36 HOURS: An inside look at Hurricane Sandy, addresses this by taking us on a tense ride along with a local news team as they brave the storm to bring the news to air.

MarBelle has a strange compulsion to watch as many films as he can get his hands on and find jobs that give him a legitimate excuse to drill filmmakers about their work. Directors Notes is the decade long incarnation of this disorder and remains so much cheaper than film school.